“It also didn’t hurt publicity that 87% of New York’s working journalists live in Park Slope – your correspondent, a co-op member in good standing for nearly a decade, included,” Braiker writes. I’m still new here, so I’m not clear on whether I can ask PolitiFact to take up that statement. I’d be surprised if the figure were higher than 84 percent.

Hi — Brian Braiker here. I did write that, but thought it was pretty clear that i was exaggerating for effect/humor. So did my editor. In retrospect, it was probably not the place for a not-very-funny-overly-subtle-insidery joke, but there you have it. Apologies for any confusion it may have caused.

http://profile.yahoo.com/XJVICMFLAYPPZ266ZRRKFIGOSM Gina G.

AB, I’m totally not surprised that the media takes a statistic at face value and mindlessly repeats it as gospel. Any logical human would question that number. The sheeplike mentality of our media is one reason that this total nonsense at the Co-op blew so out of proportion.

JH

This is a perfect example of NY media bum-rushing a story that is extremely fascinating to them but has little meaning to the rest of the world.

http://twitter.com/andymboyle Andy Boyle

Jacob Harris of The New York Times did some sleuthing (he asked the writer on Twitter) and the guy said he made the number up: https://twitter.com/#!/harrisj/status/184995662507687937

So. There you go.

http://twitter.com/andymboyle Andy Boyle

Jacob Harris of The New York Times did some sleuthing (he asked the writer on Twitter) and the guy said he made the number up: https://twitter.com/#!/harrisj/status/184995662507687937